How quickly should we handle moderation when comments are made on an NPR site?

37.5% of respondents selected: Comments should appear instantly. Only problem comments should be moderated.

50.8% of respondents selected: Comments should be moderated before they appear, even if this causes a short delay.

11.7% of respondents selected: Comments on news stories should be moderated more heavily than other kinds of comments.

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Trust me, enforcing that policy is a challenge at times. But in the best-case scenario, it results in a substantive dialogue such as the one that occurred this week on Mollie’s post titled “We don’t have a free press. Discuss.”

Meanwhile, back to the original point of my Chick-fil-A post, I asked whether newspaper reports buried the lede on Cathy and Windmeyer getting together and finding common ground.

I’m still trying to figure out why this didn’t get more main stream play. Given all the coverage (albiet delayed and a bit slanted) of the failed boycott and the huge Eat at Chick Fil A response, wouldn’t this have been an interesting piece?